Tamara Galanter

Tamara Galanter joined Shute, Mihaly and Weinberger LLP in 1989 and is a partner with the firm. She counsels and litigates on behalf of land trusts, public entities, community groups and environmental organizations concerning environmental and land use matters, including conservation easements, the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), subdivision and general plan law, public agency administration, and real estate transactions. Tamara serves as general and outside counsel to many land trusts, including the The Nature Conservancy, Trust for Public Land, Tri-Valley Conservancy, Peninsula Open Space Trust, Sonoma Land Trust, Marin Agricultural Land Trust, Land Trust of Napa County, and Eastern Sierra Land Trust. Tamara received her law degree from Yale Law School and graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor's degree from the University of California at Berkeley. She is a member of the Bars of the State of California and several federal courts, helps organize and chairs the Conservation Law Forum of the California Council of Land Trusts (CCLT), and is an advisor to the CCLT Policy Committee.